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Detroit Pistons' Rasheed Wallace celebrates in the closing seconds of Game 4 against the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA Finals, Sunday, June 13, 2004, at the Palance of Auburn Hills, Mich. The Pistons defeated the Lakers, 88-80.(Photo: Julian H. Gonzalez/Detroit Free Press)

I based my decision on length of time Wallace played with the Pistons and not the tremendous impact he had on the organization. His Pistons stint includes an NBA title in 2004, a near-second one in 2005 (Wallace doubled Manu Ginobili when he was told to stay on Robert Horry, who hit the game-winning 3-pointer in Game 5) and won 64 games in the 2005-2006 season.

Jerry Stackhouse told me Wallace would make a great acquisition. They played at North Carolina together. I thought there was no way. I figured ‘Sheed would be a headache and a nightmare to cover on a daily basis.

Not only was Wallace a great teammate, but he was one of the few guys that would go bowling with me on the road. He had his days when it was tough to talk basketball with him, but Wallace was cool, great in the locker room and defensively took the team to another level.

He and Ben Wallace were a terror under the basket. And he popularized a phrase that players still use today: “Ball don’t lie.’’

Stackhouse was right. Rasheed was just the person the organization needed to go to become championship contenders. Aside from the technical fouls and berating referees, he was as bright a basketball mind that ever put on a Pistons uniform.

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I just thought guys like Gene Shue, Dave DeBusschere and George Yardley deserved to be on the list more because they played longer in Detroit and were All-Stars in their own right.

We all know Isiah Thomas, Bill Laimbeer, Joe Dumars, Dennis Rodman, Bob Lanier, Dave Bing, Ben Wallace and Chauncey Billups were no-brainers. It was tough leaving Tayshaun Prince off, too, but if Rasheed had played another season or two with the Pistons, I would have been hard-pressed to keep him off.

I believe guys from the past should not be forgotten. Rasheed Wallace may have been better than Shue, DeBusschere and Yardley, but Billups, Ben Wallace, Prince, Rip Hamilton and Corliss Williamson took a lot of pressure off Rasheed. Yardley, Shue and DeBusschere didn’t have that luxury.

He is one of my favorite all-time Pistons and I’m his favorite all-time bowler. But Rasheed just didn’t make my list.